Floating
- Floating point, a representation in computing of rational numbers, most commonly associated with the IEEE 754 standard
- Floating currency, a market-valued currency
- Floating ground, is a ground in an electric circuit that is a reference node serving as a common return path for current from other components, which is not electrically connected to the Earth.
- Floating, a type of dental work performed on horse teeth
- Float voltage, an external electric potential required to keep a battery fully charged
- Floating, making use of an isolation tank
- Floating, the guitar technique of sustaining a chord rather than scratching, also called damping
- Floating (dance), a group of footwork-oriented dance techniques closely related to popping
- Floating (play), by Hugh Hughes
- Floating (psychological phenomenon), slipping into altered states
- Subspace (BDSM), the psychological state of the submissive partner in a BDSM scene
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Famous quotes containing the word floating:
“The structure was designed by an old sea captain who believed that the world would end in a flood. He built a home in the traditional shape of the Ark, inverted, with the roof forming the hull of the proposed vessel. The builder expected that the deluge would cause the house to topple and then reverse itself, floating away on its roof until it should land on some new Ararat.”
—For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)
“Eftsoones the Nymphes, which now had Flowers their fill,
Ran all in haste, to see that silver brood,
As they came floating on the Christal Flood,”
—Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)